as in optimistically
in a positive or optimistic manner
They waited hopefully for the doctor to update them on their friend's condition. When the sun appeared, we asked hopefully if everyone remembered to bring sunblock.
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Recent Examples of hopefully
So one day, hopefully, that will come to fruition.
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
The Countach, hopefully, will continue to be used as such, with proper care and maintenance, if nothing else than to protect the investment.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
Again, hopefully, Foxx was able to relax a little, grab some rays and just breathe.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Below are four candidates to hopefully provide that same satisfaction — and, potentially, profit — come March Madness 2026.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
The Countach, hopefully, will continue to be used as such, with proper care and maintenance, if nothing else than to protect the investment.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
Again, hopefully, Foxx was able to relax a little, grab some rays and just breathe.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Below are four candidates to hopefully provide that same satisfaction — and, potentially, profit — come March Madness 2026.
—Jim Root, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hopefully
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hopefully
Adverb
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Street estimates optimistically assume margins could grow to over 17% by FY2028.—
Michael Khouw,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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But Chopra dared every woman to dream and think optimistically because doing so is a direct rebuke of not just personal troubles but also more systemic ones.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Thankfully, Loki's happily ever after came shortly after the animal shelter posted this video.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Nov. 2025
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As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Iasiello, a licensed real estate broker, exhaustively and cheerfully documents his work buying, rehabilitating and flipping these homes, providing daily video diaries of the work and line item breakdowns of the entire cost — and profit — associated with some of his projects.—
Karen Wang,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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That Berube can’t answer that question publicly and confidently right now is part of the problem for the team.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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As expected, Mahomes made all his game picks and confidently rolled with his Red Raiders to secure the afternoon victory.—
Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Downstairs, a group of Americans are chatting joyfully.—
Lucy Kehoe,
AFAR Media,
31 Oct. 2025
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Amish are part of the wider Anabaptist movement, which puts heavy emphasis on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, containing some of his most radical and counter-cultural sayings — to love enemies, live simply, bless persecutors, turn the other cheek and to endure sufferings joyfully.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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And that’s not even considering the day-to-day ways that all Americans are positively affected by the military and its tradition of service.—
Chris Dovi,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office had not yet positively identified McClintic.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
11 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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They are felt as they are composed, painfully, joyously, cellularly—and they are designed for other biological beings to experience, to connect with, to be animated, provoked and moved by.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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My favorite style of Brazilian music is a roda de samba, where musicians play in a circle as the crowd joyously surrounds them at spots like Vaca Atolada or Pedra do Sal.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Hopefully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hopefully. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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